Daily Archives: February 1, 2010

Although NASA will get a budget increase for 2011, plans to return humans to the moon by 2020 would be officially scrapped, because the program is "over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation," according to the White House.

The ancestors of ostriches and other flightless birds once flew, a new study says. They apparently grounded themselves in earnest, though, after dinosaurs were wiped out.

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how one tiny creature has flourished for up to 50 million years without sex: it dries up.